2007 Death Hans Wollschlager, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses, dies in Bamberg, Germany 2004 Death Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino Actor 1974 Death [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, Black U.S. advocate in Virg, dies at 83 1948 Birthday Ted Poe, American Politician 1939 Birthday Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino Actor 1935 Birthday Hans Wollschlager, born in Minden, Germany, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses 1890 Birthday [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, black U.S. advocate in Virginia 1849 Death Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven), dies in Baltimore at 40 1849 Death Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet 1845 Event Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (New York City) 1841 Event 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published 1841 Event Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published 1832 Birthday Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Brigadier General, Union volunteers 1831 Event Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy 1809 Birthday Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author, Pit and the Pendulum